The active components and the pharmacological multi-target principle of STW 5 (Iberogast®)

Phytomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 20-35

  Wegener, T ^a   Wagner, H ^b  

^a Consulting Herbal Medicinal Products ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multi drug and target principles; Pharmacologically active constituents of STW 5 (Iberogast ); Relevance for therapy of functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; CHELIDONIUM EXTRACT; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; CUCURBITACIN; DEPSIDE; DIHYDROFURANOCOUMARIN; DIHYDROXYCOUMARIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLAVONOID; FUROCOUMARIN; GLUCOSINOLATE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IBEROGAST; LECTIN; MACROLIDE; PHENOL CARBOXYLIC ACID; PHENYLPROPANOID; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; SAPONIN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SESQUITERPENE; SESQUITERPENE LACTONE; SINAPIC ACID ESTER; STEROID; STEROL; STW 5; TERPENE; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ACID SECRETION;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 33751351686     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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